Improvement in harvester-rakes



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WiLLIAM vv. K1Nesnnrnr,4 or KALAMAzoo, MICH1GAN.

Letters Patent N 92,058, dated June 29, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT 1N HARVESTER-RAKS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part o! the same.

To all whom 'it may concern.:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. KINGsBUnY, of Kalamazoo, in the county of Kalamazoo, and. State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Self-Rake for Reapers; and I 4do hereby (le-- -clare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to certain improvements in 1 self-rakes for reapers, and consists in the construct-ion land arrangement of the various parts, as will be fully e described hereinafter,

In the drawings-v Figures 1 and 2 are plan views of my invention, showing the rake at different stages of operation;

Figure 3 isa sectional view of the ball-and-socket joint; and

vFigure, 4, a perspective view of therake-head, with the screen attached.

To enable others shilledin the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed 'to describe fully its construction and operation.

A A represent tlie wheels of a harvester, and B.. its platform.

C represents a loose disk oravheel, provided with4 the grooved sleeve c, rigidly attached thereto, which revolves upon an extension of the axle a, as is clearly shown in theJ drawings. v

The inner face of the sleeve e is provided with a suitable clutch-arrangement, which, when properly operated by the: lever D, engages with a similar arrangement upon the outer face of -the wheel'A.

D represents abitnrcated lever, the fingers of which rest in the groove of the sleeve c. This level' is suitably pivoted at a proper point, and is operated, when desired, by the hand-lever E, through the medium of the connecting-rod e.

F represents the 'rake-arm, which is att-ached, at its inner end, by a hall-and-socket joint, to the platnm in rear of the wheel A', as is shown in the drawing.

Its outer end is attached to theralie-head F', as shown,

the latter being pivoted thereto in such manner as to revolve thereon slightly, when desired.-

t1 represents a crank-arm, oneend of which is 'eccentrically attached to the disk O, andthe other to the rake-arm, asis shown. Both of these arms are provided with suitable holes for adjustment, as is also the disk` O.

I represents the carrier-rod, which arches about the plat-form, as isolearly shown in the drawing. The` rake-arm is so bent as to sweep the table properly,

and so also are the carrier-rodsjand the crank-arm, in order to .gi-ve the rake-.arm the proper movement.

The rake-head is provided with the usual rake-v teeth, and has also a screen', J, which consists of cloth stretched from bent rods, extending upward from the rakefhead, by means of which the standing is separated from the cut grain..A

The .operation is as' follows:

Themachine having been thrown'in gear, the rakearm, through the medium of the crank-arm and carrier-rod, is iirst brought forward, and then swept back across the table, thus freeing it from gear. '.lhe rake# head being pivoted upon the arm, adjusts itself to the position of vthe table, even it' the ground is uneven.

The arrangement of the geari g outside the drivingwheel, is a beneficial one. Of course the rake may be operated at every revolution ofthe disk O, or, by using the handv lever E, it may be permitted to operate only at intervals. 5

By'the construction herein described, a simple and eici'ent self-rake is produced.

` Having thus fully described my invention,

' What I claim as new, and desire to secureby Iletters Patent, is-

1. The pivoted rake-head F', provided with the screen J, as described, for the purpose set forth'.

2. The rake-arm F, 'with .rake-head F', crank-arm H, carrier-rod I', and disk C, when combined and arranged as and for thepurpose described.

This specification signed and witnessed, this 1st` day of March, 1869. WM..W. KINGSBURY;

Witnesses:

- O. T. TU THILL, v WM; A. House. 

